I was looking at some of the elections data for my ongoing series about the shift and found that John McCain only garnered 544 fewer votes in Miami-Dade County than George W. Bush did in 2004.<\/p>\n
It wasn’t so much that people shifted to the Democrat, it’s that the Democrats recruited a bunch of new voters. We knew this already but not the extent of it. Obama garnered 90,099 more votes than Kerry did.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Look for the Dems to spend the next four years telling you that this past election was a definitive sea change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Henry Louis Gomez at Babalu Blog crunches the numbers behind Obama’s win in Miami: I was looking at some of the elections data for my ongoing series about the shift and found that John McCain only garnered 544 fewer votes in Miami-Dade County than George W. Bush did in 2004. It wasn’t so much that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}